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A majority of Los Angeles County supervisors want to consider raising the minimum wage for county residents and employees, joining a growing number of local governments in the region. Officials in the city of Los Angeles are considering raising the current $9-an-hour minimum wage to $13.25 by 2017 and $15.25 by 2019. After the release last week of a trio of studies examining the economic effects of those proposals, county Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Hilda Solis plan to ask their colleagues to commission a study of similar wage increases in the county. The analysis would look at raising the base wage for all businesses in county unincorporated areas, where about 1 million people live, as...

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A majority of Los Angeles County supervisors want to consider raising the minimum wage for county residents and employees, joining a growing number of local governments in the region.
Officials in the city of Los Angeles are considering raising the...

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, local governments began talking about a new emergency communications plan that would connect every cop and firefighter in Los Angeles County on one system.
But to the dismay of many, the radio network is still not a...

It's a universal principle: Lock up the criminal not the victim.
No one has ever doubted that the pimps who brazenly exploit the foster care system to profit from the sex trade are criminals. But it took awhile for Los Angeles County decision makers to...

A Glendale city councilman has joined the race to succeed Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, according to a statement he filed with county election officials.
Ara Najarian, an attorney, said in his filing he would accept...

A U.S. citizen who said he was threatened with deportation while detained in jail has settled a claim with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.Diego Rojas, 18, was arrested on suspicion of burglary last May and taken to Los Angeles County’s Twin...

Looking for an additional weapon in their continuing battle against the peddling of teens and children for sex, Los Angeles County supervisors moved Tuesday to more tightly regulate emergency shelter motels to ensure they aren't sites for child...

Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to reconfigure the governance structure of the county’s top layer of management, a first step toward rolling back a 2007 decision that gave more power to the county’s chief executive.
The details of the...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to help eligible immigrants apply for President Obama's contested deferred action program, even as the fate of the president’s signature immigration initiative remains unclear.
On a 4-1 vote,...

There is only one woman on the 15-member Los Angeles City Council.
Statewide, women have been losing ground at other elected levels.
But the emerging field of potential candidates for next year's Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors election raises...

Rep. Janice Hahn said Tuesday that she will forgo a congressional reelection campaign next year and instead run for an open seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, where her populist father, the late Kenneth Hahn, served for four decades.
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The National Republican Congressional Committee on Wednesday announced its top Democratic targets in next year's House races, including six in California.
The California Democrats include five that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee listed...

Fines for wasting water in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County are expected to rise sharply as warmer weather approaches.
The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a measure that would boost fines from $100 to...

Far fewer Los Angeles County children died because adults had neglected or abused them in 2014, leaving elected officials and experts encouraged — and pondering why.
The number killed dropped from 61 in 2013 to 32 last year as county officials...

Democratic state legislator Isadore Hall, who won his state Senate seat in a special election just two months ago, said Thursday he would run for Rep. Janice Hahn's U.S. House post if she decides to try for Los Angeles County supervisor next year.
An...

As Rep. Janice Hahn weighs a run for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors — where her late father held a seat for four decades — the San Pedro Democrat faces a rapidly changing district and potentially strong competition for one of the most...

Rep. Janice Hahn (D-San Pedro) is weighing a run for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, among the most powerful local elected jobs in the nation on a body where her father held a seat for four decades.
“In recent months, Rep. Hahn has...

After a year of stalled efforts to address breakdowns in Los Angeles County's child protection system, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday adopted two key recommendations of a blue ribbon commission established in the aftermath of a beating death of an...

A new majority on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors say they want to place child welfare back at the center of their agenda this year, including reconsidering a series of reforms that their predecessors refused to authorize last year.
The...

Los Angeles County supervisors approved a $25,000 reward Tuesday for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the shooting of three adults and the kidnapping of a baby whose body was later discarded her body in a San Diego County dumpster.
In a...